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astro-ph2000★ 144 cited

Molecular Carbon Chains and Rings in TMC-1

David Fosse, Jose Cernicharo, Maryvonne Gerin +1

We present mapping results in several rotational transitions of HC3N, C6H, both cyclic and linear C3H2 and C3H, towards the cyanopolyyne peak of the filamentary dense cloud TMC-1 u…

astro-ph2000★ 59 cited

Extended SZ map of the most luminous X-ray cluster, RXJ1347-1145

E. Pointecouteau, M. Giard, F. X. Désert +4

We present in this letter a high resolution (22'' FWHM) extended map at 2.1mm of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect toward the most luminous X-ray cluster, RXJ1347-1145. These observati…

astro-ph2000★ 8 cited

Error estimation for the MAP experiment

S. Prunet, R. Teyssier, S. T. Scully +2

We report here the first full sky component separation and CMB power spectrum estimation using a Wiener filtering technique on simulated data from the upcoming MAP experiment, set…

astro-ph2000★ 2.4k cited

The European Photon Imaging Camera on XMM-Newton: The MOS Cameras

M. J. L. Turner, A. Abbey, M. Arnaud

The EPIC focal plane imaging spectrometers on XMM-Newton use CCDs to record the images and spectra of celestial X-ray sources focused by the three X-ray mirrors. There is one camer…

astro-ph2000★ 60 cited

A Mosaic of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies with XMM-Newton

Ulrich G. Briel, J. Patrick Henry, David H. Lumb +7

The Coma cluster of galaxies was observed with XMM-Newton in 12 partially overlapping pointings. We present here the resulting X-ray map in different energy bands and discuss the l…

astro-ph2000★ 166 cited

Measuring Cluster Temperature Profiles with XMM/EPIC

M. Arnaud, D. M. Neumann, N. Aghanim +3

Using the PV observation of A1795, we illustrate the capability of XMM-EPIC to measure cluster temperature profiles, a key ingredient for the determination of cluster mass profiles…

astro-ph2000★ 139 cited

XMM- Newton Observation of the Coma Galaxy Cluster: The temperature structure in the central region

M. Arnaud, N. Aghanim, R. Gastaud +8

We present a temperature map and a temperature profile of the central part (r < 20' or 1/4 virial radius) of the Coma cluster. We combined 5 overlapping pointings made with XMM/EPI…

astro-ph2000★ 39 cited

XMM-Newton First-Light Observations of the Hickson Galaxy Group 16

M. J. L. Turner, J. N. Reeves, T. J. Ponman +7

This paper presents the XMM-Newton first-light observations of the Hickson-16 compact group of galaxies. Groups are possibly the oldest large-scale structures in the Universe, pre-…

astro-ph2000★ 2 cited

Observations of Mkn 421 with the CELESTE Experiment

J. Holder, CELESTE collaboration

The CELESTE experiment uses the heliostats of an old solar farm in the French Pyrenees to detect gamma ray air showers by the atmospheric Cerenkov technique. Observations of the Te…

astro-ph2000★ 2 cited

Ion can dissociate in a strong magnetic field

Alexander V. Turbiner, Juan Carlos Lopez V., Antonio Flores-Riveros

In framework of a variational method the molecular ion in a magnetic field is studied. An optimal form of the vector potential corresponding to a given magnetic field (gaug…

astro-ph2000★ 20 cited

Using the COBE/DMR data as a test-bed for normality assessments

N. Aghanim, O. Forni, F. R. Bouchet

A very important property of a statistical distribution is to know whether it obeys Gaussian statistics or not. On the one hand, it is of paramount importance in the context of CMB…

astro-ph2000★ 10 cited

On the 21Na(p,gamma)22Mg thermonuclear rate for 22Na production in novae

Nadya A. Smirnova, Alain Coc

Classical novae are potential sources of gamma-rays, like the 1.275 MeV gamma emission following 22Na beta decay, that could be detected by appropriate instruments on board of futu…

astro-ph2000★ 20 cited

Optimizing ISOCAM data processing using spatial redundancy

M. -A. Miville-Deschenes, F. Boulanger, A. Abergel +1

We present new data processing techniques that allow to correct the main instrumental effects that degrade the images obtained by ISOCAM, the camera on board the Infrared Space Obs…

astro-ph2000★ 67 cited

The European Large Area ISO Survey III: 90micron extragalactic source counts

A. Efstathiou, S. Oliver, M. Rowan-Robinson +17

We present results and source counts at 90micron extracted from the Preliminary Analysis of the European Large Area ISO Survey (ELAIS). The survey covered about 11.6 square degrees…

astro-ph2000★ 28 cited

Probing large-distance higher-dimensional gravity with Cosmic Microwave Background measurements

Pierre Binetruy, Joseph Silk

It has been recently argued that higher dimensional gravity theories may manifest themselves not only at short microscopic distances but also at large cosmological scales. We study…

astro-ph2000★ 17 cited

Limits of crystallographic methods for detecting space topology

Roland Lehoucq, Jean-Philippe Uzan, Jean-Pierre Luminet

We investigate to what extent the cosmic crystallographic methods aimed to detect the topology of the universe using catalogues of cosmic objects would be damaged by various observ…

astro-ph2000★ 37 cited

Skewness as a probe of non-Gaussian initial conditions

Ruth Durrer, Roman Juszkiewicz, Martin Kunz +1

We compute the skewness of the matter distribution arising from non-linear evolution and from non-Gaussian initial perturbations. We apply our result to a very generic class of mod…

astro-ph2000★ 34 cited

Background discrimination capabilities of a heat and ionization germanium cryogenic detector

P. Di Stefano, L. Berge, B. Chambon +26

The discrimination capabilities of a 70 g heat and ionization Ge bolometer are studied. This first prototype has been used by the EDELWEISS Dark Matter experiment, installed in the…

astro-ph2000★ 4 cited

Submillimeter and Far-InfraRed Experiment (SAFIRE): A PI class instrument for SOFIA

R. A. Shafer, S. H. Moseley, P. A. R. Ade +7

SAFIRE is a versatile imaging Fabry-Perot spectrograph covering 145 to 655 microns, with spectral resolving powers ranging over 5-10,000. Selected as a "PI" instrument for the airb…

astro-ph2000★ 101 cited

The European Large Area ISO Survey II: mid-infrared extragalactic source counts

S. Serjeant, S. Oliver, M. Rowan-Robinson +20

We present preliminary source counts at 6.7um and 15um from the Preliminary Analysis of the European Large Area ISO survey, with limiting flux densities of \~2mJy at 15um & ~1mJy a…

astro-ph2000★ 5 cited

Statistical Study of Short Quiescent Times Between Flares

Sebastien Galtier

The study of the statistical distribution of short quiescent times ( 30 minutes) between solar flares has been investigated on a 1D MHD model. A power law behaviour is found w…

astro-ph2000★ 221 cited

The European Large Area ISO Survey I: Goals, Definition and Observation

Seb Oliver, the ELAIS consortium

We describe the European Large Area ISO Survey (ELAIS). ELAIS was the largest single Open Time project conducted by ISO, mapping an area of 12 square degrees at 15mu with ISO-CAM a…

astro-ph2000★ 27 cited

Event categories in the EDELWEISS WIMP search experiment

A. Benoit, L. Berge, A. Broniatowski +28

Four categories of events have been identified in the EDELWEISS-I dark matter experiment using germanium cryogenic detectors measuring simultaneously charge and heat signals. These…

astro-ph2000★ 29 cited

Very High-Energy Gamma-Ray Observations of PSR B1509-58 with the CANGAROO 3.8m Telescope

T. Sako, Y. Matsubara, Y. Muraki +31

The gamma-ray pulsar PSR B1509-58 and its surrounding nebulae have been observed with the CANGAROO 3.8m imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope. The observations were performed fro…